Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental. It is not realistic.

When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse. The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin' orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.

If you can't be yourself, what's the point of being anyone else?

Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. --Blanche Dubois

What shouldn't you do if you're a young playwright? Don't bore the audience! I mean, even if you have to resort to totally arbitrary killing on stage, or pointless gunfire, at least it'll catch their attention and keep them awake. Just keep the thing going any way you can.

It's hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don't want to write.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.